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8th Grade US History '12-'13
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Quarter 1
Colonial Weeks 1-6
- Voyage of Discovery
- Discovery and Settlement of the New World, 1400-1500
  - Pre-Columbian Era
  - Christopher Columbus
  - Cortes Defeats the Aztecs
  - Inca
- Handouts
  - Pre-Columbian.pdf
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- European Explorers
  - Explorers Interactive
  - Spanish Explorers
  - French Explorers
  - Exchanges
  - Mission System
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AVoya
    - 3:10
- New Lands
  - Commerce
  - Technological Factors
  - Rise of Nation-States
- Handouts
  - Explorers ttt.pdf
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  - Free choice proposal.pdf
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- 13 Colonies
- English Colonies, 1600 - 1650
  - Jamestown Colony
  - Plymouth Colony
  - Massachusetts Bay Colony
  - Puritan Religion
  - Dissention in the Bay Colony
  - Williamsburg
- Handouts
  - 8th Grade Week 3 Notes.pdf
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  - Menus pg 101
  - Bloom's pg 18
- States Take Shape
  - New York and New Jersey
  - Pennsylvania and Deleware
  - Maryland, Carolina, and Georgia
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Essen
    - 1:37
  - 8th Week 4 Notes.pdf
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- American Society Takes Shape, 1650 - 1763
  - Origins of Slavery
  - Diversity
  - Family and Social Life
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/IsF
  - Notes
    - 8th week 5.pdf
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  - Handouts - 2 choices
    - Create A Colony.docx
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    - Colonial Children's Book Assignment.docx
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- New Ideas
  - The Enlightenment
  - The Great Awakening
  - North American Alliance
  - Proclamation of 1763
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ToBeg
  - week 6 notes.pdf
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Revolution & Independence Weeks 7 - 9
- Road to Revolution, 1763-1775
  - Stamp Act
  - Townshend Duties
  - Boston Tea Party
  - Political
  - Social
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/TheAmericanR
    - 1:20
    - Time line of the Revolution
    - Day to Day in the Revolution
- Handouts
  - Founders v2 pg 41
  - 8th week 7.pdf
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- The American Revolution, 1775-1783
  - Continental Congress
  - Great Declaration
  - Major Battles
  - War Continues with French Allies
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Shoem
    - :50
  - Handouts
    - 8th+wk+8.pdf
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- Peace
  - Peace of Paris
  - Forming a Confederation
  - Social Revolution
  - International Relations
  - Land Ordinances in the Old Northwest
  - Shays's Rebellion
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Inherit
    - 2:51
  - 8th Week 10 notes.docx
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Quarter 2
Constitution Weeks 10-12
- The Constitution and the New Republic, 1787-1800
  - Organizing the Convention
  - States' Plans
  - Compromise Reigns
  - Ratification of the Constitution
  - Washington is Elected President
  - Bill of Rights
  - Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians
  - Federalists and Democratic Republicans
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AFat
    - :48
- Handouts
  - Founders v1 pg 54, 126
  - Notes Set 1 Week 12.docx
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  - 8th Grade Week 12 Part 2.docx
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- Constitution Video
- constitution.pdf
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Early Republic
Weeks 13 - 15
- Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800 - 1816
  - Louisiana Purchase
  - Lewis and Clark
  - Marbury v Madison
  - Jefferson's Embargo
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AWil
    - 1:00
- Handouts
  - 8th LA purchase.pdf
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  - Week 13 Handout.pdf
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  - Louisiana Purchase Notes.docx
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- Madison
  - Election of Madison
  - The War
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Sacr
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/FlagT
    - :10
- Handouts
  - Menus pg 107
- Nationalism and Economic Expansion, 1816 - 1826
  - Era of Good Feelings
  - Missouri Compromise
  - John Marshall
  - Monroe Doctrine
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Heroic
    - 2:44
  - The War of 1812 ayslyn.pptx
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Growth
- Growth of America
- Growth of Industry
- Effects of Industry
- Westward Movement
- Innovative Transportation
- http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocracyinAm
  - :37
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- gold rush.pdf
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South & Slavery
Weeks 16-18
- The South
  - Cotton is King
  - Southern Culture
  - Condition of Slaves
  - Underground Railroad
- Handouts
  - wk 17 notes pt 1.pdf
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  - Founders v1 pg 6
- Age of Jackson, 1828 - 1848
  - Election of 1824
  - Election of 1828
  - South Carolina
  - Tariff of 1832 and Clay's Compromise
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Clay
    - 6:14
- Jackson Continued - Banking and Native Americans
  - 19th Century Banking
  - The Bank
  - Jackson and the Bank War
  - Indian Removal Act
  - Jackson and Van Buren
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/CCal
- Handouts
  - Bloom's pg 24
  - 8th Q3W2.pages
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- American Culture, 1800 - 1860
  - Transcendentalism
  - Second Great Awakening
  - Utopian Movements
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/WaltW
Semester 2
Quarter 3
Changing America- Weeks 1 & 2
- Territorial Expansion, 1820 - 1860
  - Oregon Country
  - Annexation of Texas
  - Mexican American War
  - California Gold
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Hawtho
- Handouts
  - Menus pg 113
  - Bloom's pg 25
- Week 4
  - American Reforms, 1800-1860
    - Humanitarian Reforms
    - Social Reforms
    - Women's Right
    - Abolitionism
    - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Soj
  - Handouts
    - Bloom's pg 28
- Civil War Weeks 3-6
  - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Slave Girl 1-9 DQs.pdf
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- Sectional Issues, 1820 - 1860
  - Slave Resistance
  - Compromise of 1850
  - Uncle Tom's Cabin
  - Ostend Manifesto
  - Kansas-Nebraska Act
  - Dred Scott Decision
  - Lincoln-Douglas Debate of 1858
  - John Brown's Raid
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/DavisA
- The Civil War, 1860 - 1865
  - Museum of Confederacy
  - Election of 1860
  - Southern Secession
  - Ft. Sumter
  - Mobilization
  - Military Strategy
  - Battles
  - Technology
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ByF
- Handouts
  - http://www.activehistory.co.uk/Miscellaneous/menus/Year_9/american_civil_war/game/frameset.htm

A Nation Divided
- Economy during the Civil War
- Lincoln and Civil Liberties
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Thirteenth Amendment
- Election of 1864
- http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Picke

Reconstruction
Weeks 7-9
- Reconstruction, 1865 - 1877
  - Effects of the War on the South
  - Reconstruction Begins
  - Presidential Reconstruction
    - Lincoln's Assassination
  - Black Codes
  - Congressional Reconstruction
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Saved
- Handouts
- Coming to an End
  - Impeachment of Johnson
  - The Reconstructed South
  - Reconstruction End
  - Economic Diversification
  - Political Changes
  - Race Relations in the New South
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Franka
  - 8th grade Reconstrution.docx
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Westward Expansion
Weeks 10 & 11
- Native Americans and the West
  - Migration Westward
  - Mining
  - Building and Influence of the Railroads
  - Native Americans
  - Indian Resistance
  - Effects of the Indian Wars
  - Catle, Cowboys, and Beef Barons
  - Far West
  - Growth of the West
  - Farming on the Plains
  - Frontier Passes into History
  - Farming Becomes a Business
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/BG
- Handouts
  - Bloom's pg 33-35
  - 9th+week+3.pdf
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    ush+week+4.pdf
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Gilded Age
Weeks 12-14
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- Urban Nation
  - Chinese Immigrants
  - New Immigration
  - Reaction to New Immigration
  - Appeal of the City
  - Squalid Side of the City
  - Social Development
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/IsI
- Handouts
Progressives
Week 15
- Reform
  - The People's Party
  - Origins of Progressivism
  - Social Alternatives
  - Women and Blacks in America
  - Roosevelt's Square Deal
  - Taft Administration
  - Wilson's New Freedom
  - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Flu
- Handouts
  - yellow+journalism.pdf
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Final Project
Weeks 16-18